Palestinian group Hamas stated it opposes non permanent pauses and desires a everlasting cease to Israel’s assaults on Gaza.
“Our people want a permanent end of this aggression, not temporary pauses,” Hamas stated in a press release on Monday.
The resistance group stated it might not enter any hostage swap negotiations with Israel except “there is a total cessation of the aggression.”
In one other growth, Hamas denied media stories citing Egyptian safety sources that the group and Islamic Jihad motion had rejected an Egyptian proposal to cede energy in Gaza in return for a everlasting cease-fire.
“There can be no negotiations without a complete stop to the aggression,” Izzat al-Rishq, a member of Hamas’ political bureau, stated.
“The Hamas leadership is aiming with all its might for a complete, not temporary, end to the aggression and massacres of our people,” he stated, referring to the greater than 20,000 Palestinians killed through the 11-week struggle with Israel.
The Egyptian sources stated that each Hamas and Islamic Jihad, which have been holding separate talks with Egyptian mediators in Cairo, had rejected providing any concessions past the attainable launch of extra hostages seized on Oct. 7.
Egypt proposed a “vision” fairly than a concrete plan, additionally backed by Qatari mediators, that might contain a cease-fire in alternate for the discharge of extra hostages, and result in a broader settlement involving a everlasting cease-fire together with an overhaul of management in Gaza, which is at the moment led by Hamas.
A Hamas official who just lately visited Cairo had declined to remark instantly on particular gives of extra non permanent humanitarian truces and indicated the group’s rejection by repeating its official stance.
“We also said (to Egyptian officials) that the aid for our people must keep going and must increase and it must reach all the population in the north and the south,” the official stated.
“After the aggression is stopped and the aid increased we are ready to discuss prisoner swaps,” the official added.
Islamic Jihad, which additionally holds hostages in custody in Gaza, has echoed that stance.
An Islamic Jihad delegation led by its chief Ziad al-Nakhala is at the moment in Cairo to alternate concepts with Egyptian officers over prisoner swap gives and different points, however an official stated the group had set an finish to Israel’s navy offensive as a pre-condition for additional negotiations.
Islamic Jihad insists, the official stated, that any prisoner swap should be primarily based on the precept of “all for all,” that means the discharge of all hostages held in Gaza by Hamas and Islamic Jihad in return for releasing all Palestinians jailed in Israel.
Before the struggle, there have been 5,250 Palestinians in Israeli jails, however the quantity has now grown to round 10,000 as Israel has arrested hundreds extra within the West Bank and Gaza since Oct 7, in line with the Palestinian Prisoners Association.
Overnight into Monday, Gaza endured certainly one of its deadliest nights within the 11-week-old struggle. Palestinian well being officers stated at the very least 100 folks had been killed by an Israeli airstrike within the middle of the tiny, besieged Gaza Strip.
Diplomatic efforts, mediated by Egypt and Qatar, on a brand new truce to free the remaining hostages held by militants in Gaza have yielded little public progress, though Washington described the talks final week as “very serious.”
Israel has pounded the Gaza Strip since a cross-border assault by the Palestinian group Hamas on Oct. 7, killing at the very least 20,674 Palestinians, largely ladies and kids, and injuring 54,536 others, in line with native well being authorities.
Around 1,200 Israelis are believed to have been killed within the Hamas assault.
The Israeli onslaught has left Gaza in ruins, with half of the coastal territory’s housing broken or destroyed and practically 2 million folks displaced throughout the densely populated enclave amid shortages of meals and clear water.
Source: www.dailysabah.com